God Herself: The Feminine Roots of Astrology

by Geraldine Thorsten

Scholar and astrologist Geraldine Thorsten in a revealing search through the world's old mythology, religion, history and art rediscovers the full significance of each sun sign, both the masculine and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380561433
• ISBN13: 9780380561438
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Historical Fact and Fascinating Personality Descriptions!

I read this book until it disintegrated, and luckily found another copy in a used bookstore. I highly recommend it to anyone reading about astrology, beginners or advanced students, because the author is a true historian and scholar who reveals why certain symbols have the significance that they do to this day. the book covers each sign with a "historically speaking" and "personally speaking" chapter. I've never read a better description for my sun sign, Capricorn, than the personally speaking chapter. She nails me to a T! I've held all the jobs she mentions Capricorns being good at, and I work in the way she mentions. the author also includes how our sun sign reacts with the moon as the moon goes through its transits, which I found very enlightening and helpful. I now plan significant events to the correct moon transit and feel better about the days I feel the need to "cave." While the book does focus mainly on returning the female aspects back into a science that was re-written by men, this is not a man-hating type book and can be appreciated by anyone, no matter what their personal political agenda is, because it is such a fine piece of scholarly work. The world history it presents was never taught in our schools, and shows why school history is so boring - it's been sanitized beyond recognition. When you read the historically speaking chapters it resonates with truth, the kind that makes our soul, our personal recorders of all our lives, respond with a Yes! that's how it was!